Archive for December, 2007

First New Year’s Eve as parent…

First New Year’s Eve as parents: dinner at 5, boy in bed at 6:30, 1 game of Risk, no alcohol, wife in bed by 8:30, husband twittering.

sparrow – Google Code

“Sparrow is a really fast lightweight queue written in Ruby that speaks memcached. That means you can use Sparrow with any memcached client library (Ruby or otherwise).”

(tags: memcached ruby queues)
roo

Ruby gem to read the content of spreadsheet files

(tags: ruby gems spreadsheets excel openoffice google)
thrudb – Google Code

Document based database built on Facebook’s Thrift, similar to SimpleDB and CouchDB

(tags: thrift databases memcached s3 storage)

Snow falling. Downy woodpecker on Aspen tree. French toast and coffee consumed. "For Unto Us a Child is Born" on the radio. Christmas.